Czech, Czech, Czech, Czech it out!

After a laborious bus trip involving a two hour wait at the border, we finally made it to Prague. We near missed the whole bloody thing when we slept through our alarms - lucky our roommates knew we had to get up. Low key first night with a great cheap Czech meal. Then yesterday was laundry...finally. It was quite sad to see the sheer joy as we watched our clothes spinning in the washing machines. Our whites have not looked this good since Sydney and the Napisan (it is 15 quid at the Aussie shop in London!).

We trekked round the city seeing all the famous sites and absolutely beautiful scenery. The buildings here are amazing - another city with so much history. The buildings remain untouched as Hitler blocked any bombings on Prague during WWII, as he wanted it to remain intact and become the new cultural centre, after the war.

After much civility it was time to let loose...Prague styles. Out came the absthince and cocktails in fishbowls. We headed to a local club that allegedly had scorpions on the bar! Much to our disappointment there were no scorpions to be found. The club was quite dingy, with an 'interesting' industrial-like decor, with some different tunes that are unlikely to ever be released in Australia...

We are pleased to have found our fellow travelers like a party just as much as us. The fact they are all Aussies, probably has something to do with this. It was midweek suburban clubbing at its best!

Today we went out to the amazing Prague Castle - the many buildings are huge and the view is like no other. It is definitely worth the hour trek up the hill with a 12% gradient.

P.S. The last pic is of the mammoth escalators at the train station - we have christened it, "The escalator of death".